[ghoulchurch]

The pandemic has seriously fucked up the socializing skills of little kids they dont even say trick or treat anymore they just give you the kubrick stare until you give them candy

[ghoulchurch]

Me:Hi!! Happy halloween!!!😃

9year old in a bendy and the ink machine costume:

[funnytwittertweets]

[fyeahsmokinhot]

THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021) + letterboxd reviews

[judeaumoved-deactivated20251124]

[words-of-emotion]

[kushandwisdom]

Words of Emotion

[stars-bean]

Beetlejuice (1988) dir. Tim Burton

[battlestar-royco]

here have 10 pieces of writing advice that have stuck with me over the years

every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person

even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday

exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them

if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love

make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you

if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders

don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts

i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less

sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer

a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks

[battlestar-royco]

the way that after nearly 2 years since me making this post, half the tags and comments on here are still people fighting about keeping a word count within 100k

i’m genuinely not trying to be rude or stifle creativity when i say 100k is a completely reasonable goal for like 90% of books. (fics are a different story because you’re not hindered by a certain structure or audience expectation.) most literary, romance, and contemporary books are between 75-100k. original sff may branch anywhere between 120-150k. anything above that is pretty rare, especially for debuts. just give it a try. it can only help you to get more precise with your word choices and line edits.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[requiem-on-water]

Fairy trees of the Baltic Coast II by Heiko Gerlicher

[margotdaily]

HARLEY QUINN + making new friends

[filmgifs]

Recently I made a promise to myself that the next time I got a boyfriend, I’d be on the lookout for red flags, and if I saw any, I’d do the healthy thing. And I would murder him. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe (2016-)

[perfectopposite-deactivated2024]

LOKI Episode 2, The Variant

[finn-is-punk]

I had to.

[understands]

[ladybirdwithoutdots]

“Mr. Knightley dressing was done for a very specific reason: he’s so comfortable in his clothes and that is very important because later on when he’s losing his mind because he’s completely going nuts because he loves Emma so much, those clothes are in his way. In order to really believe that he’s having a panic attack and tearing his clothes off, you needed to see that never has happened to him in his life.”   - Autumn de Wilde

“(he has) this kind of natural ease about his position in society, but also a kind of existential panic underneath it about his feelings for Emma. At some point it actually starts to swallow him up. It just all seems like madness, and he has a little breakdown somewhere in the middle because of societal laws. You can barely see it, but you get the sense of him trembling behind his stiff collar.” - Johnny Flynn

EMMA. | 2020 | screenplay by Eleanor Catton

[reythemandalor]

[redactedshapes]

Shortly after Director Faden gave Head of Research access to all the resources necessary to keep poking at The Nail.